----- Original Message ----- From: Maria Two Heart <m2heart@webtv.net> To: cherokee6 <cherokee6@bright.net> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 4:58 PM Subject: Re: Hello..New List Mom | Hello Everyone | | My name is Maria Two Heart nee Maria Kidder formerly from Lafayette, | Louisiana. I am a descendant of Thomas Kidder. He came to the Americas | with 2 brothers. They stayed on the East Coast and grandfather went to | live in Nova Scotia where he married a Mi'kmaq native. They went to | Louisiana during the time of the Grande Derangement of the Acadians. | | Then once in Louisiana some more of grandfathers offspring married into | the Atakapa people of which I am. Therefore I am | English-Mi'kmaq-Atakapa. | | The old ones do not like to talk about the Native in our blood. It was | a bad situation to be native back in their day. Today we call is | racism. I learned of my full heritage on the my father's dying bed. I | knew about Thomas and the brothers but not about the Native in our | bloodline. | | Kidders, stand tall. We are of a proud and rich heritage. I welcome | you to my family. | | | I will walk the road of Truth and Peace | | |